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?S SU6A8 HEALTHFUL ?
THEY ABE ASKING.
{The Literary Digest. )
Sugar is getting into the hygienists
good graces. Instead of being frown?
ed upon a?; the cause of indigestion,
bad teeth and general ill-healtth, it
is now regarded as a valuable food-sub?
stance by most physicians. Not by
all, however, for, as we are informed
by a writer in the Drogistiche Rund?
schau, while some of them main tin
that sugar is of great service, to the
human body, strengthening the
digestion and preventing Undue acid?
ity, other? declare that even its moder?
ate use is injurious to both the stom?
ach and the teeth, while its exces?
sive use develops diabetes. Says the
author of the article just mentioned,
which is translated for The National
Druggist i July) :
"OH ami famous doctors, like Hufe
.. land and Heirn, declare that *a moder?
ate use of suagr stimulates digestion
and prevents fermentation in the stom?
ach, while an excessive indulgence in j
the article has an injurious effect on j
the digestiv? faculties, as- it causes
the formation of an excess of lactic
acid, which makes itself apparent in
the secretions especially in the saliva,
and in ?his manner produces an in?
jurious effect on the teeth. *
"Latter-day physicians, those repre?
senting the latest phases of medical
knowledge declare with great posi
tivness that * sugar causes acidity of
the stomach only when ingested in
small quantities into a stomach al?
ready acid or inclined to acidity,
when the lactic-acid fermentation
seizes upon it and carries it ?long
with it. If, however, the sugar is
used in larger quantities it over?
comes the fermentation and stops it. |
* ! The latest in vestigati ons have in
truth demonstrated that lactic-acid
ierjnente&aa is stopped by an excess,
of sugar ; but, to the disappointment
of pie-esiters and bon-bon devotees, j
it must be stated that this effect is
produced only when the substance is
absolutely pure. In this condition it
seems to make no difference whether |
the sugar be eaten solid in the shape
of lumps, or dissloved in pure water.
Sugar excites the secretions of the
- stomach, increases digestion of album?
inous ma iters and of nutritives contain?
ing iron and lime, a fact which proves
that under proper conditions sugar is
a remedy against anemia, cholrosis
and in scxofuia.
"This explains the love of a great
many children for sugar in the lump, j
who afterward, as they grow older, I
avoid plain sugar, or sugar by itself, J
almost entirely. It seems to be a sort
of instinct with children .with weak
bones and thin blood.. As early as 1878
Dr. Bokel" recommended in his writ?
ings, sugar as the best and most pow?
erful remedy in rachitis ('rickets'.).
According to the theory advanced by
him, .the sugar given in such cases
sets up an alcoholic fermentation,
which overcomes the lactic acid pres?
ent in excess and thus prevents the es?
cape of the bone-building salte."
According to the writer, the idea
that"sugar causes bad teeth is an alto?
gether mistaken one* The teeth of the
negroes in the tropics are dazzingly ;
white and sound. ' On sugar-plan ta?
rions in Cuba, Louisiana, and else- !
where, sill negoes run down with labor
or sickness grow sleek, fat, and strong
again on the return of the sugar har-;
vest solely by chewing the cane. Eng?
lishmen and Americans eat more sugar
than the French and the Germans, and
yet they have better teeth than the
latter. He goes on to say :
** After participating in many kinds
of food, sugar seems to act as digester,
and that heaviness often felt ; after a
hearty meal is frequently relieved by
drinking a "glass of sugar-water. The -
famous Hufeland, in his book 'MakroJ?
biotik (L e., on long life), sings a
hymn of praise to sugar, and reeom|B
mends plenty of sugar to all who have
to eat coarse heavy food. It is better,
he states, for lean than fat ones.
"When we find that cake-bakers and
millers habitually have bad teeth it
is natural to charge the fact to the use
of sugar or of flour. Rather ascribe
it to the lack of care of the teeth,
habitual with those people, which
permita particles of food to remain
between the teeth and thus further
decomposition. If they used the brush
frequently and properly they would
have as good teeth as anybody.
"In old times our confectioners,
bakers, etc, did not employ sugar in
their sweet wares, but honey, whose
antiseptic properties were known even
in remote antiquity, and the Egyp?
tians, Greeks, etc., frequently .used it
as an application to serious wounds.
For that matter, as late as the seven?
teenth century, our ancestors used
sugar as an application to wounds.
The practice, however, fell into neg?
lect and was forgotten until only re?
cently prominent surgeons are again
bringing the substance into use. Dr.
Lucke, for instance, professor at the
Uninversity of Sferassburg, recommends
it in gangrene, and has used it with
excelllent results..
"The Frenchman, Claude Bernard,
has demonstrated that the normal
sugar-contents of the blood immediate?
ly commences to use whenever any dis?
ease or injury to the organism com?
mences to grow better. In this case
a Mood rich in sugar seems to exert
an- influence on the reparative action."
This condition of the blood lasts until
the health is restored or until the
source of supply (of sugar) is cut short.
Normal and healthy blood always
contains sugar, which ia derived from
all nutritive foods and has absolutely
nothing to do with the consumption of
pure sugar. That a too great indulgence
in sugar, by itself or mixed with other
things, can have a bad effect ?and
cause sickness is not to be denied, but
that iss use, either in small quantities
or large, can cause diabetes can not
be too strongly denied. Such an idea
could be conceived or find defenders
only from the fact that the original
cause of that only too frequent disease
has, up to the present, eluded investiga?
tion and remains a mystery.
"Finally, we can assert that the
healthiness of sugar is no longer dis?
puted by educated physicians. That
it is not only an article of nourish?
ment, but a b?n?ficient one, is de?
monstrated by the fact of the constant
growth of its employment. In A. D.
1700 all Europe used about 10,000,000
pounds of it; in 1870 this had
reached 4,000,000,000 pounds, while
statistics show that from the end of
August, 1900, to February, 1902,
2,000,000,000 pounds of beet-sugar
alone has been consumed."
BEEBY FOR LYNCH UW.
John Temple Braves' Analysis of
the Negro Question.
RAGES MOST B? SEPARATED.
._.
"Thp Sternest, the Strongest and
the Mest Effective Restraint
That the Age Holds for the
Control of Rape.
Chautauqua, N.- Y., Aug. IL-Un?
ique among all summer gatherings is
the "mob conference" now in progress
here. The increase of mob spirit shown
by feuds, lynchings, riots, assassina?
tions and other lawless happenings
gives great importance to this confer?
ence. Among today's speakers was
John Temple Graves of Atlanta, Ga. ,
Mr. Graves^ spoke on "The Mob
Spirit of the South. ?* He defended
lynch law as a remedy for the crime
of rape, holding that though lynching
is ? crime it is justified by the crime
which provokes it and will never be
discontinued until that crime is eli?
minated. The remedy for. lynching
must be the elimination of. the crime
of rape, and this, he maintains, could
be done only by the separation of the
two races in the United States. '
"The problem of the hour is not
how to prevent lynching in the south
but the larger question: 'How shall
we destroy the crime which always
has and always will provoke lynching?!
The answer which the mob returns to
this vital question is : already known.
The mob answers it with the rope,
the bullet and sometimes, God save
us, with the torch. And the mob is
practical; its theory is effcetive to a
large degree; the mob is today the
sternest, the strongest and the most
effective restraint that the age holds
for the control of rape. "
"The lyncher does not exterimnate
the rapist," Mr. Graves contended,
'but he holds hint mightily in check."
As a sheer, cold, patent fact, he said,
the mob . stands 1 today as the most po?
tential bulwark between the women
of the south and such a carnival of
crime as would infuriate the world
and precipitate the annihilation of the
negro race. The masses of the negro,
he held, are not afraid of death com?
ing in a regular way. They love dis?
play and the spectacular element of a
trial and execution appeals to their
imaginations.
Expediting the processes of the law
would not be adequate to eliminate
lynching. The repeal of the amend?
ments and the establishment of the
negro's inferiority in law and society,
said Mr.- Graves, though desirable,
are not sufficient, "for the negro," he
added, "isa thing of the senses, and
with this'race and with all similar
races the desire of the senses must be
restrained by the terror of the
senses, if possible, under the law."
No influence of suppression so mighty
and effective could be brought to bear
as a law making amputation the pen?
alty for the crime of rape. ?ut this,
like curfew edicts, separate laws for
white and black or the treatment of
the crime of rape as separate and out?
side of all other codes are but expedi?
ents, he maintained there is no real
remedy but one. No statute will per?
manently solve this problem Religion
does not solve" it. Education com?
plicates it. Politics complicates it.
"The truth which lies beyond and
above all those temporizing, ex?
pedients." he concluded," is that
separation is the logical, the inevit?
able, the only solution of this great
problem of the races."
Discussing the subject of "Mental
and Moral Contagion," Dr. J. M.
Buckley of New York, after speaking
at some length of the various transient
and permanent c hanges that take place
under different physical and mental
influences in human personality, took
up the question of crime and argued
that all crime implied the existence
of society and its attritions, that sin
and vice could be committed by a per?
son alone in the world but not so
crime. He showed the operation of
this and how far through their natural
causes epidemics might spread.
In conclusion, he declared that as
laws of association bring on such gen?
eral and feverish criminal tendencies,
so the laws of association must be
employed to antagonize them.
? i n i mm*
Columbia, Aug. ll.-An important
meeting of the board of trustees of
Winthrop college was held in this city
yesterday afternoon and three new
members of the" faculty were elected.
Miss Bessie Webb Birdsall was elected
tb take charge of the department of
domestic arts ; Miss Marion R. Mc?
Millan, M. D., of Charleston is to be
the resident physician, and Miss Mamie
F. Wickliffe of Walhalla is to be the
head of the new department of manual
training.
Rydales Elixir. '
The new scientific discovery for diseases
of the throat and lungs, acts upon a new
principle differing greatly from the old
style Cough Medicines which are compos?
ed chiefly of wild! cherry and tar, which do
little more than stimulate the lining of the
throat and lungs. Rydales Elixir strikes
at the root of the trouble, it kills the mi?
crobes that cause throat and lung diseases.
It removes the c&use and hastens ?ecovery
by helping nature restore the diseased or?
gans to health .For sale by all dealers.
Nichols, Aug. 12.-The first bale of
cotton was received this morning. It
j was raised by Mr. Albert Garrels,
a thrifty farmer near this place. It
classed high and was bought by Col.
A. B. Nichols at 13 cents. It weigh?
ed 550 pounds.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 19.-The house
of representatives of the State legisla?
ture today passed the convict bill, as
amended by the senate, providing for
the employment of all five-yetr felony
convicts on the public roads. Each
county may work its pro rata number
of convicts.
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Signature of
SEABOARD AiR LINE GOBBLED
lt Will Now be Controlled by
Rock Island* System, But J.
P. Morgan is the Real
Power Behind D?al.
New York, Aug. 12.-The long ex?
pected announcement that the Sea?
board Air -Line had passed, at last,
practically into new hands was made
today by Ladenburg, Thalmann &
Co., who issued a statement showing
that interests, representing the
Rock Island and St. Louis
and San Francisco, had se?
cured representation in the Sea?
board directorate and board of voting
trustees. The official statement was
as follows:
"Ladenburg, Thaimann & Co. an?
nounce that they have completed nego?
tiations whereby new and important
interests have become identified with
the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Com?
pany. B. F. Yoakum and H. Clay
Pierce and B. F. Guinness, of Laden
burg, Thalmann & Co., and Okleigh
Thorne, president of the North Ameri?
can Trust Company, have been elected
trustees- of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway. President John Skelton Wil?
liams also announces that B. F. Yoak?
um, H. Clay Pierce, Okleigh Thorne
and S. B. Van Vorst have been elected
directors of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway."
Mr. Yoakum is president of the St
Louis and San Francisco Railroad, for
which company J. P. Morgan & Go.
are?scal agents.
y The ofiicial announcement of the
deal also said :
'VTne change of personnel of voting
trustees of the stock of the Seaboard
Air Line Company ? does not mean
the purchase of that company
by Rock Island or 'Frisco inter?
ests although the 'Frisco lines
extend into Birmingham, and
area part of the Southern situation.
It does, however, emphasize the fact
that all the great railway systems, are
carrying out the policy of more closely
cementing the railway transportation,
interests of the country, which will;
greatly retard, and it is hoped, entire?
ly prevent the demoralization of the
rate situation or the unnecessary con?
struction and duplication of property.
"Attention is called to the fact that,
with the discontinuance of any further
construction by the Seaboard Air
Line, the value of the properties are
greatly enchanced. And another grati?
fying fact at this time, and which is
further evidence of the future disposi?
tion of the railways of the United
States, is that this deal does not call
for any financing ot supplying of new
money."
One of the voting trustees, when,
asked to state the special significance
of the deal, said that' it meant a " bet?
ter understanding among interests
that have at various times conflicted. "
The policy of the Seaboard Air Line
for a long time was one of absolute in?
dependence; so much so as to make it
at times inimical to the interests of
opposing roads traversing adjacent
territory. Today's developments, it is
thought, will do away with such trou?
ble in the future.
The new directors take the places of
F. R. Pemberton, of this city; R. C.
Davidson, Baltimore ; E. B. Addison,
Richmond, and W. W. Mackall,. Sa?
vannah.
The most important point in the
agreement between the Seaboard Air
Line and the St. Louis and 'Frisco
interests is that it gives the latter
road an outlet to tidewater ^at six or
seven/important ports. These include
Norfolk, Wilmington, Savannah,
Charleston, Brunswick, Fernandina,
Jacksonville and St. Augustine. Fur?
ther down the coast the 'Frisco Road
will have an outlet at Cedar Key.
The difference between the so-called
Morgan interests, represented by the
Southern Railway, and the Seaboard
Air Line people, daring the last few
years, has been a sharp one. The effort
of Thomas F. Ryan and his associates
to get a foothold in the Seaboard, or
as some suggested, control of that
company, was accompanied by rumors
at the time that he was acting in the
interest of the Southern, but this was
strongly denied. The laws of some of
the Southern States expressly preclude
one company from controlling a conr
peting road. This rendered it impossi?
ble for Mr. Morgan to turn the Louis?
ville and Nasheville Road over to the
Southern. Instead of that it went to
the Atlantic Coast Line.
The'Seaboard made a strong bid for
the Louisville and Nashville Road,
and when it was refused even a part?
nership in it, it was intimated that
other alliances would be made, perhaps
with the Gould people.
.In contrast with the old-time rate
cutting which the Seaboard indulged
in it has been significant that in re?
cent years it has had a sort of silent
understanding to maintain rates, so
that all of the railroads in Southern
territory would be able to get as much
profit as possible out of their traffic.
The Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Company, operating 2,611 miles *of
road, was formed under the laws of
Virginia'in 1900, to succeed the old
Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina
Railroad. The system now extends
from Richmond, Va., to Tampa, Fla.,
with connections to Montgomery and
to Birmingham, and east to Charles?
ton, Wilmington and Norfolk. "Under
ra traffic agreement with the Pennsyl?
vania Railroad a through passenger
and freight service is maintained be?
tween Washington and New York.
The Seaboarrd Air Line also owns
the Bay -Line Steamship Company,
operating from Baltimore to Norfolk.
THE S. A. L.'S NEW BRANCHES.
.Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 12.-The
Seaboard's branch from Coal City into
Birmingham, thirty-nine miles, has
been under construction since early in
the year and is nearing completion.
Trains will be running into this city
not later than next January. The Sea?
board's Georgia's branch from Rock
mart to Atlanta, forty-eight miles, is
under construction and will be com?
pleted in seven or eight months. The
distance between Rockmart and Coal
City, eighty-three miles, covered by
the Seaboard east and west road, is
now operated.
Seaboard System Will Derive
Greatest Advantage From the
New Arrangement.
New York, Aug. 13.-President
John Skelton Williams of the Seaboard
Air Line railway, made the following
statement today :
"Th? report tha?r Southern railway
interests have acquired au interest in
the Seaboard Air Line system is in?
correct.
"As is well known Messrs. Pierce
and Yoakum are closely identified with
the St. Louis and San Francisco-Rock
Island system, and it is reasonable to
suppose that this latter system and
the Seaboard'Air Line system will
hereafter be operated in thorough
harmony or to their mutual advant?
age. Through this association the
Rock Island system will be furnish?
ed with direct outlets at seven sea?
ports on the Atlantic coast and the
Gulf of Mexico, including Baltimore,
Norfolk, Wilmington, Savannah,
Fernandina, Jacksonville and Tampa.
"The situation is eminently satis?
factory to me and to the arrangements
by .which these new interests have been
brought into the property have been
carried through by Ladenburg, Thal?
mann & Co., with my cordial coopera?
tion."
LARGE INCOME OF BUSINESS.|
Richmond, Va., Aug. 13.-Concern?
ing the recent Seaboard Air Line deal,
it was stated today at the banking
house of- John L. Williams & Sons, of
which John Skelton Williams, presi?
dent of the Seaboard Air Line, is a
member, that the transaction would
give the Seaboard about S3, OOO, OOO
of additional business annually and
that this practically insures dividends
on both the preferred and common
stocks of the . road. Last year the
Seaboard earned a 4 per cent dividend
on its common stock.
Through freight service to and be?
yond Richmond from the west and far
southwest will be established soon,
and very probably through passenger
train service, thus making Richmond
a much more important railway cen?
tre and increasing its commercial
'importance.greatly. The great advant?
age to the Seaboard Air Line as a re?
sult of the arrangements just effected
will be in the - diversion of freights
from the St. Louis and San Francisco
and the Rock Island systems to the
Seaboard Air Line. '
CHARLESTON DEEPLY INTEREST
ED.
Special to The State.
Charleston, Aug. 13.-There is much
interest taken here in the absorption
of the Seaboard Air Line by the Rock
Island road. The Seaboard is now
building the connection between At?
lanta and Birmingham, the terminus
of the St. Louis and San Francisco
road which was acquired some time
ago, and when this connection is
complete the only South Atlantic port
of any importance reached will be Nor?
folk. Savannah cannot-be reached un?
less a line is built between Olar and
Athens and if this connection is made,
it is thought here that an extension
will be made to Charleston and at last
Charleston will secure desired railway
facilities. The line to Augusta has long
been wanted and there is now some
likelihood of it being built. The Sea?
board Air Line owns valuable termin?
als and franchises here and it would
seem to ..its advantage to construct the
railroad of 80 miles, opening the sys?
tem to the port of Charleston.
CONSTABLES RESENT INSULT.
Excitement in Charieston Magis?
trate's Court-Called "Dere?
licts of Society."
Special to The State.
Charleston, Aug. 12.-An exciting
scene occurred in the court of Judicial
Magistrate Memminger today when
Attorney W. Turner Logan, a member
of the legislature, denounced the dis?
pensary constables as ' * derelicts of so?
ciety," iii the course of his argument
defending several negro drivers for
. hauling contraband liquors. Constables
Murphy, Hoy and Gideon were in the
court room and they resented the in?
sult which the attorney had cast upon
them. Murphy was especially out?
spoken, crying out that he came from
. one of the best families of the State
and was as good as Mr. Logan. The
constables wanted Mr. Logan to with?
draw the remark which he refused to
do and there was much confusion and
disorder in the room. Judge Mem?
minger finally restored order. The
negroes were acquitted of the charge
by the jury, who refused to accept the
evidence of the constables of the guilt
of the men.
Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 12.-jobel
Register and his father, H. B. Regis?
ter, were convicted in Whiteville, Co?
lumbus county, today of the murder
of Jesse Sales and Jim S tally last
March and burning their house down
upon their bodies, after robbing the
premises of something over $1,000.
The younger Register was sentenced
to be hanged on October 9, and the
lather was sentenced to the peniten?
tiary for life. Cross Edmondson,
whose confession implicated the Reg?
isters and secured their conviction,
was sentenced to six years. Regis?
ter's counsel gave notice of appeal tc
the supreme court.
Is Indigestion a Disease ?
The best medical authorities say that in?
digestion is not always caused by a dis?
eased stomach, but may result from a dis?
ordered liver, constipation, excitement,
etc The cause is of little consequence
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daies Stomach Tablets have a specific ton?
ic effect on the stomach and organs of as?
similation and are guaranteed to cure the
worit forms of stomach trouble. For sale
by all dealers.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 12.-A bill was
passed by the senate of the State leg?
islature today condemning the whip?
ping of female prisoners at State
prisons.
A Good Liver.
A bad liver means a bad breath, bad
complexion, poor digestion and often
constipation. A good healthy active liver
means a fine clear skin, free from pimples
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other words ?Ood health. Make the Liver
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Marble and Granite Monuments, Head?
stones and Iron Fencing,
Large Stock Finished Work on Yard.
You will find our prices much lower than you
have been paying. Investigate, call or write
for designs and prices.
Special discount for the next thirty days.
Office and works 33 E. Liberty Street, Sum?
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Corn, Oats, Hay, Ship
Sf liff, Hulls and C. Seed
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Also full line of standard grade Wag?
ons, both one and two horse,
Buggies, Harness, Carriage?.
. We also have on hand a full line of building
material, such as Lime, Cement, Plaster Paris,
Hair, Laths, Fire Brick, Terra Cotta Pipe,
Stove Hues, &c.
We want to give you prices when you need
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